Seth Meyers Age 2026: How Old Is Seth Meyers Today?

Last updated: November 9, 2026 · By Nathan Cole

Seth Meyers is 52 years old in 2026. He was born Seth Adam Meyers on December 28, 1973, in Evanston, Illinois, which means he turns 53 on December 28, 2026 — less than two months from now. If you have seen a page that still says 51, it is out of date: that number was correct in 2025 and stopped being correct the day he turned 52 last December.

The age matters because of when everything in his career happened. Meyers was 27 when he joined Saturday Night Live in 2001, 32 when he took over Weekend Update in 2006, and 40 when he became the host of Late Night in February 2014 — the oldest person ever to start hosting a Late Night franchise, according to IMDb. He has now spent more than half his life in network television, and he has been behind the Late Night desk for nearly 13 years, with a contract that runs through 2028.

This article answers the age question properly: the exact birth date and the math, the childhood in Michigan and New Hampshire, the Northwestern years and the Amsterdam improv detour, the 13 years at SNL, the Late Night era and its 2026 headlines, his wife and three children, and the money — an estimated $25 million net worth on a reported $5 million annual salary. It also puts his age next to every other late-night host on television, so the number lands in context.

Seth Meyers Quick Facts

Early Life: Evanston, Okemos and Bedford

Seth Adam Meyers was born on December 28, 1973, in Evanston, Illinois, just outside Chicago. He did not stay there long. The family moved to Okemos, Michigan, when he was four, and he spent the next six years there — ages four to ten — before the Meyers family settled in Bedford, New Hampshire, where he grew up. Bedford is the town he still calls home in interviews, and the place he returns to for stand-up: in August 2026 he played the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the first time in three years, raising money for CASA of New Hampshire and the Granite State Children’s Alliance.

His parents were Hillary Meyers, a French teacher, and Lawrence Meyers, a finance executive. The household was comfortable and bookish rather than show-business: a teacher and a finance man raising two boys in suburban New Hampshire. His younger brother, Josh Meyers, born in 1976, followed him into comedy and became an actor and comedian in his own right — the two now host a podcast together, and their parents still show up as guests on it.

The New Hampshire years shaped the comic voice Meyers still uses on Late Night. He has talked on the podcast about the local brand of affectionate teasing in his family — his parents and brother ribbing each other as a form of love — and about the family trips that went wrong in small, memorable ways. New Hampshire Magazine, profiling the podcast in July 2023, noted that the brothers’ stories keep circling the same material: childhood vacations, their parents Larry and Hillary, and the disasters that happened on the road. It is the same material that powers “A Closer Look” in a different key: a man who learned to be funny at the family dinner table, then learned to aim it at the news.

Nothing in his childhood pointed at television stardom. He was a bright, funny kid in a small New England town, the older of two brothers, with no family connection to entertainment. The path from Bedford to 30 Rockefeller Plaza ran through a university improv troupe, a year in Amsterdam, and a Chicago comedy scene — and it took him until 27 to get to New York.

Northwestern University and Boom Chicago

Meyers enrolled at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois — back in the town where he was born — and graduated in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree. Northwestern mattered for one reason above all: its improv scene. He joined the university’s improv troupe, and the work clicked. Comedy stopped being something he was good at around the dinner table and became a craft with rules, rehearsal and an audience.

After graduation he did what a small number of American improvisers did in the 1990s: he went to Amsterdam to perform with Boom Chicago, the English-language improv troupe based there. The year in the Netherlands gave him stage time in front of international audiences and, just as importantly, a collaborator network. Boom Chicago alumni kept turning up in his career — the troupe was a pipeline into Chicago and New York comedy, and Meyers followed it home.

Back in the United States, he worked the Chicago improv scene, performing with groups there and building the sketch-writing habit that would define his career. He was not a stand-up first, and he was not an actor first. He was a writer-performer: the person in the room who could build a scene, find the joke in it, and then perform it. That combination — writer’s brain, performer’s timing — is exactly what Saturday Night Live hires for, and in 2001, at 27, he got the call.

Saturday Night Live: Thirteen Years, 2001–2014

Meyers joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2001, at 27. He arrived as a writer-performer, and for his first five years he was mostly the former: a staff writer who appeared in sketches, built a reputation in the writers’ room, and waited for the on-camera break. It came in 2006, when he was made head writer and, in the same year, took over the anchor desk of Weekend Update.

He stayed at SNL for 13 years, leaving in February 2014 to host Late Night. Thirteen years is a long run by any measure — only a handful of cast members have stayed longer — and it covered three distinct eras of the show: the post-9/11 rebuild of the early 2000s, the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler years, and the 2010s cast that included Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Fred Armisen. Meyers wrote for all of them and performed alongside all of them.

His sketch work was steady rather than showy. He played the straight man, the news anchor, the boyfriend, the guy reacting to the chaos — the roles that hold a sketch together without stealing it. The writing was where he left the deeper mark. As head writer from 2006 to 2014, he ran the room that produced the show’s political material through two presidential elections and the first Obama term, and the show’s writing Emmys from that period carry his fingerprints even when his name is not the one on the trophy.

He came back to host SNL in 2018, four years after leaving, and he returned again in 2025 for the show’s 50th anniversary celebrations — a cameo in the anniversary season, and a share in the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special that the SNL50 special won. The 50th anniversary year also put his name back in the succession conversation: in October 2026, Jason Sudeikis — an SNL cast member from 2003 to 2013 — named Meyers as one of two alumni who could take over from Lorne Michaels one day. Michaels, who turns 82 in November 2026, has given no sign of retiring. The comment says more about how the SNL family sees Meyers than about any imminent change: the head writer who never really left the building.

Weekend Update: Eight Years Behind the Desk

Weekend Update is the job that made Seth Meyers famous to people who never watched a sketch. He took the anchor chair in 2006, at 32, first alongside Amy Poehler and later with Cecily Strong, and he held it for eight years — the longest continuous run at the desk since the segment began. The format is unforgiving: a news desk, a camera, and jokes that have to land in the room or die there. Meyers’ style was dry, fast and precise, and it became the template for what he does now on Late Night.

The segment’s signature bits from his era — the exasperated “Really?!?” exchanges with Poehler, the celebrity impressions he introduced, the long-running gags about the news cycle — all ran on the same engine: a newsreader who sounded like he had read the story, understood it, and was quietly furious about it. That tone carried straight into “A Closer Look” a decade later. The desk taught him the two skills his whole career runs on: compressing a complicated story into a joke, and delivering it as if he is talking to one person.

He left the desk in February 2014, the same week he left the show. Cecily Strong, his final co-anchor, took it over with Colin Jost. The handover was clean — Meyers went straight to Late Night, and Weekend Update went on without him — but the eight years at the desk are the reason NBC trusted him with a talk show. He had already been doing a version of it, once a week, in front of the same audience, for nearly a decade.

Late Night with Seth Meyers: 2014 to Now

Late Night with Seth Meyers premiered on February 24, 2014. Meyers was 40 years old — the oldest person ever to start hosting a Late Night franchise, per IMDb — and he was succeeding Jimmy Fallon, who had moved up to The Tonight Show. The handover was a promotion inside the same building: Fallon went to 11:35, Meyers took 12:35, and Lorne Michaels executive-produced both shows.

Twelve years later, he is still there. The show has passed 1,800 episodes, according to New Hampshire Magazine’s 2026 profile, and its signature segment, “A Closer Look,” has become the reason many viewers watch: a 10-to-12-minute monologue that works through a single news story with jokes, clips and a visible argument. It is Weekend Update stretched to feature length, and it is the segment that gets clipped, shared and quoted the morning after.

The contract tells the same story of staying power. NBC renewed Meyers in January 2016 through 2021, again in February 2021 through 2025, and again on May 13, 2024, through 2028 — the renewal Deadline reported that day, alongside an extension of his Sethmaker Shoemeyers production deal with Universal Studio Group. The 2024 renewal came with a cut: the show’s budget was reduced and the 8G Band, led by Fred Armisen, was laid off after a final on-air appearance on August 22, 2024. The band still provides pre-recorded music for openings and guest entries, but the live band is gone — the clearest sign of how tight late-night economics have become.

That economics story turned political in 2025. CBS cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and in August 2025 President Donald Trump attacked Meyers on Truth Social, calling the 2024 extension a “sick rumor” and calling for him to be fired. The extension was not a rumor: it had been announced publicly 15 months earlier. Meyers’ show survived the year, and on the September 28, 2026 episode of SmartLess, he told Will Arnett he would like to still be hosting Late Night in five years — past the end of his current contract. “I would love to say in five years from now I’m still doing Late Night,” he said. “I’m not tired of it at all. I really, really enjoy it.” At 52, with a contract through 2028 and a stated wish to keep going, he is the steadiest presence left in American late night.

Seth Meyers’ Age at Every Career Milestone

The fastest way to understand a 52-year-old’s career is to see how old he was when each piece of it happened. Meyers started late by television standards — 27 at SNL, 40 at Late Night — and then never stopped. The table below puts the age next to the date for every major turn.

Two things stand out in that table. First, the gap between 22 and 27 — five years of improv in Amsterdam and Chicago before SNL — is the longest apprenticeship of any current late-night host. Second, everything after 40 happened fast: marriage, three children, a talk show, a podcast, a stand-up special, and a contract that now runs to 2028. He started late and then packed two careers into the second half of his life.

Wife and Family: Alexi Ashe and Three Children

Meyers married Alexi Ashe, a human rights lawyer, on September 1, 2013, on Martha’s Vineyard. He was 39. They had been together for five years before the wedding, and the marriage has stayed out of the tabloid cycle that follows most television hosts: Ashe keeps a low public profile, and Meyers talks about her on the show the way he talks about everything in his private life — warmly, briefly, and with the details kept at home.

They have three children. Ashe Olson Meyers was born on March 27, 2016, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York; Meyers was 42. Axel Strahl Meyers followed on April 8, 2018, when Meyers was 44. Their daughter Adelaide was born in September 2021, when Meyers was 47. The children’s names carry family history: Ashe is his wife’s first name, and Axel’s middle name, Strahl, is a family name on Ashe’s side.

Fatherhood changed the show as much as it changed him. His 2024 HBO stand-up special, Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking, is built almost entirely from parenting material — the title is the joke and the thesis at once — and the children turn up in his monologues as characters in stories he is clearly telling for the first time on television. He has said on his podcast that his kids are now old enough to bank their best stories for a return to Late Night rather than the podcast, because, in his words, they “really love national television.” The oldest, Ashe, was ten in March 2026; the youngest, Adelaide, turned five in September 2026.

The Meyers Brothers: Josh and the Family Trips Podcast

Josh Meyers, three years younger than Seth, is an actor and comedian who built his own career on shows like MADtv and That ’70s Show. The brothers grew up performing for each other in Bedford, and in June 2023 they turned that dynamic into a job: Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, a podcast in which celebrity guests revisit their childhood vacations and family-trip disasters. The first episode, released June 27, 2023, featured Amy Poehler — Seth’s former Weekend Update co-anchor and a fellow New Englander — talking about Cape Cod and solo trips.

The guest list since then reads like a roll call of Seth’s working life: Pete Davidson, John Oliver, Tom Holland, Colin Jost, Amy Schumer, Kathryn Hahn and Josh Gad, among others. The premise never changes — a guest, a childhood trip, the Meyers brothers asking questions — and the show is still in production through 2026, with its fourth season beginning on January 6, 2026. The theme song was written and performed by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, and the brothers’ parents, Larry and Hillary, have appeared as guests, retelling the family vacations their sons keep mining for material.

The podcast is the second of Seth’s two long-form audio projects. During the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, he co-hosted Strike Force Five with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver — five late-night hosts, one podcast, running from August 30 to October 10, 2023, to support their staff members who were out of work. He also co-hosts The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast with his former SNL colleagues. The through-line is the same as his television career: writers talking to writers, with the jokes doing the work of the conversation.

Money: Seth Meyers’ Net Worth in 2026

Seth Meyers’ net worth in 2026 is estimated at $25 million. That figure comes from Celebrity Net Worth, checked on November 6, 2026, and it is the number Parade repeats in its coverage. Readers should know exactly what that means: there is one valuation, not two. Parade is citing Celebrity Net Worth’s estimate, not producing its own. If Celebrity Net Worth is wrong, Parade is wrong with it.

A fuller account of Seth Meyers’ net worth on this site reaches the same $25 million anchor, with the same caution about the single-source estimate. The agreement across outlets is real but narrow: they agree because they are reading the same page.

The honest range is wider than the headline number. Other outlets publish figures from $12 million to $30 million, and the spread has a simple explanation. The $12 million end is a stale figure carried over from older pages that were never updated after the 2024 contract renewal. The $70 million claims that appear on junk tracker sites have no named source behind them and no reporting to support them — this article flags them as fabricated rather than repeating them as fact. The defensible reading is $25 million, inside a $25–30 million range, with no audited records to narrow it further.

The income behind the estimate is easier to document than the total. His reported Late Night salary is $5 million a year. At that rate, the twelve years since February 2014 represent roughly $60 million in gross salary before tax, agent fees and living costs — which is why a $25 million net worth, after more than a decade in one of the best-paid jobs in television, is a plausible figure rather than a surprising one. The 2024 renewal through 2028 locks in at least four more years of that income, and the Sethmaker Shoemeyers production deal with Universal Studio Group adds producing income on top of the hosting salary.

The rest of his money comes from the same places as any working comedian’s: stand-up touring, including the August 2026 SNHU Arena benefit show; the 2024 HBO special Dad Man Walking; podcasting; voice work, including the animated series The Awesomes, which he co-created for Hulu in 2013; and the occasional film appearance, most recently as himself in the 2026 documentary Lorne. None of these is a fortune on its own. Together, over 25 years in the business, they are how a late-night host ends up worth $25 million.

Seth Meyers Next to His Late-Night Peers

Meyers is 52. That puts him almost exactly in the middle of the late-night pack — younger than the two men who run the 11:30 hour, older than the two who run the shows after him. The comparison also shows how unusual his career path was: he is the only current host who spent more than a decade at SNL before getting a desk of his own.

The most useful comparison in that table is the one with Jimmy Fallon. The two men are nine months apart in age — Meyers was born in December 1973, Fallon in September 1974 — and they swapped jobs in the same week in February 2014: Fallon moved up to The Tonight Show and Meyers took over Late Night. Fallon started his show at 39, Meyers at 40. Twelve years later, both are still in those chairs, and both have contracts that run to 2028. The other comparison worth noting is the starting age: Kimmel was 35, Oliver 37, Noah 31, Colbert 51. Meyers, at 40, was the oldest first-time Late Night host in the franchise’s history — and the one whose show has lasted longest into its second decade without a change of host.

Seth Meyers in 2026: Lorne, Stand-Up and the Future

2026 has been a year of anniversaries and returns for Meyers. In April, he appeared as himself in Lorne, Morgan Neville’s documentary about SNL creator Lorne Michaels, which opened in theaters on April 17, 2026. The film gathers the people who know Michaels best — Steve Martin, Paul Simon, John Mulaney, Tina Fey, Conan O’Brien, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, Mike Myers and Meyers among them — and Meyers’ presence in it is a measure of his standing inside the SNL family: the former head writer, called back to testify about the man who hired him at 27.

He spent the summer on stage. On August 7, 2026, he played the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire — a homecoming stand-up show, his first in the state in three years, raising money for CASA of New Hampshire and the Granite State Children’s Alliance. New Hampshire Magazine’s preview noted that the show had passed 1,800 episodes by then, and that the Family Trips podcast was in its fourth season. The stand-up circuit is where Meyers started — the improv stages of Amsterdam and Chicago — and it is still the part of the job he does for its own sake, away from the cameras.

Autumn brought the succession question back. On October 20, 2026, Jason Sudeikis said on a podcast that Meyers was one of two SNL alumni who could take over from Lorne Michaels. Michaels has not indicated he is retiring, and at 81 he is still executive-producing SNL, The Tonight Show and Late Night. The comment matters less as a prediction than as a verdict from inside the building: the people who worked with Meyers for thirteen years think of him as the keeper of the show’s institutional memory.

And in September, Meyers answered the question about his own future directly. On SmartLess, asked where he sees himself in five years, he said he would love to still be doing Late Night. His contract runs through the 2027–28 season. If he gets his wish, he will be 57 when it ends — and, on the evidence of the last twelve years, still the steadiest desk in late night.

Awards and Hosting Gigs

Meyers’ trophy shelf is thinner than his résumé suggests, and that is a fair reflection of how his career works: he is a writer’s writer, and the awards for that kind of work tend to go to the show rather than the person. The clearest individual marker came in 2025, when he shared in the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for the SNL50 anniversary special — the show’s 50th birthday, and a reminder that the writers’ room he once ran still counts him as one of its own. His show, Late Night, has won Emmys for writing and directing across its run, per an October 2026 report in TheThings.

The hosting gigs are the more visible credential. He hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2014, the same year he took over Late Night, and the Golden Globe Awards in 2018. Both are jobs that go to people the industry trusts not to embarrass it on live television — and both came at moments when Meyers was the newest face in late night, which says something about how quickly the industry decided he belonged there. He has also hosted the ESPY Awards and appeared as a presenter and guest across the awards circuit for two decades.

What he has not won is a standalone Emmy for Late Night itself, and that gap is worth stating plainly. The show is critically respected and commercially durable, but it has never been the awards darling that The Daily Show or Last Week Tonight were in their peak years. The consolation is the one that matters in television: a contract through 2028, a show that has passed 1,800 episodes, and a host who says he wants to keep going. Awards are a line on a résumé. Twelve years in the same chair is the résumé.

Why Some Sites Still Say He Is 51

If you search “Seth Meyers age” today, you will still find pages that say 51. They are not lying. They are out of date. The number 51 was correct from December 28, 2024, when he turned 51, until December 27, 2025. He turned 52 on December 28, 2025, and every page that has not been updated since then still shows the old number.

The stale pages are easy to spot once you know what to look for. They carry 2025 dates: a biography page updated in January 2025, a “Seth Meyers biography 2025” page, a Parade food article from June 2025 that calls him “the 51-year-old Saturday Night Live alum.” All three were accurate when they were published. None of them has been refreshed since his birthday. The aggregator sites that scrape each other — dailywikibio, kaushalgreenenergy and their many lookalikes — copy the stale figure from one another, so the wrong number keeps circulating long after the right one is a matter of public record.

The fix is simple arithmetic, and it is the same arithmetic this article uses. Born December 28, 1973: subtract 1973 from 2026 and you get 53, then subtract one because his birthday has not arrived yet this year, and you get 52. On December 28, 2026, he turns 53, and every page that says 52 will be out of date in its turn. That is how ages work, and it is why a dated article matters more than a confident one: the date tells you whether the number has been checked since the last birthday.

Where Is Seth Meyers Now?

As of November 2026, Seth Meyers is 52 years old, living in New York, and hosting Late Night with Seth Meyers five nights a week from 30 Rockefeller Plaza — a job he has held since February 24, 2014, and a contract that runs through 2028. He is married to Alexi Ashe, and they are raising three children: Ashe, ten; Axel, eight; and Adelaide, five. He co-hosts the Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers podcast with his brother Josh, now in its fourth season, and he still tours stand-up, most recently at the SNHU Arena in New Hampshire in August 2026.

The next milestone is a birthday. On December 28, 2026, he turns 53. After that, the calendar is quiet until the 2027–28 season, when his NBC contract comes up for renewal — the decision that will determine whether the man who started hosting Late Night at 40 is still behind the desk at 55. He has already said he wants to be. The twelve years behind him suggest NBC will let him.

Sources & Reporting

This article was reported in November 2026 from published sources. The core facts — birth date and place, family background, education, SNL tenure, Weekend Update years, Late Night start date and contract history, marriage and children’s birth dates — were verified against Wikipedia’s Seth Meyers profile and the Late Night with Seth Meyers show page, TV Insider and IMDb, with dates cross-checked across outlets. The net worth anchor ($25 million) comes from Celebrity Net Worth, checked November 6, 2026, as repeated by Parade; the $12–30 million range and the fabricated $70 million claims are reported as found on tracker sites, and the article says so rather than presenting them as fact. The reported $5 million annual salary is a published figure, not a contract on the public record. The 2024 contract renewal through 2028 was reported by Deadline on May 13, 2024, and confirmed by NBCUniversal’s press release; the 8G Band layoff and the August 22, 2024 final appearance are from the show’s Wikipedia history. The SmartLess interview was reported by LateNighter on September 28, 2026. The August 2025 Truth Social attack was reported by OK Magazine and Gatorsports on August 27, 2025. The Lorne documentary (April 17, 2026, Focus Features, Morgan Neville) and Meyers’ appearance in it were verified via Moviefone and Next Best Picture. The Family Trips podcast launch (June 27, 2023), its fourth season (January 6, 2026) and its guest list were verified via Wikipedia, TheTVDB, Listen Notes and New Hampshire Magazine (July 2023 and 2026). The Jason Sudeikis succession comment was reported by TheThings on October 20, 2026. The SNHU Arena stand-up (August 7, 2026) and the 1,800-episode figure are from New Hampshire Magazine. No figure in this article is invented, and no source was quoted without being named. Corrections: if any fact here is shown to be wrong, it will be corrected with a dated note.

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